Music as an escape

I feel it’s pretty safe to say that everybody uses music as a sort of escape from reality, and I know you could say that about TV’s movies and podcasts i know you could say that about TV’s movies and podcasts but music has this way of taking your entire focus away from the world when you really listen to it.

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Music has this sort of ability to take away all other senses within your mind and just focus on the sense of sound even though you’re still using all of your other senses while listening to music. Music just has that sort of power over your mind that you can just put 100% of your focus into and forget about all other stresses, it’s probably because it reaches so many parts of your brain when listening that you don’t even have the ability to think of anything else. Personally, I find when I’m listening to music and then try and think about something else it’s either I’m listening to the music or I’m thinking about something else because as soon as I start diverting from the path of music you become unable to really focus on it.

It probably wasn’t the best Idea to be constantly listening to music while I was in high school because that same issue came up where if I was focusing on the music I was listening to I wasn’t really paying attention to whatever class I was in.  and sure you have those people that are saying that they can pay attention and listen to music at the same time, but be honest with yourself, did that ever really work?

I appreciate music for being a tool for escaping reality, I don’t think I’d be the person I am today without it.  However, I should probably stop trying to escape with music while driving down Hwy 1 because that could create some complications.

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